List of cartographers
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Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.
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Before 1400
- Dicaearchus (Greece, circa 350 B.C. - circa 285 B.C.), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
- Hipparchus, (Greece, 190 B.C. - 120 B.C.), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
- Isidore of Seville (Spain, 560 - 636)
- Ptolemy, (Ptolemaic Egypt, Greece, circa 85 - circa 165), astronomer, cartographer, geographer'
- Al-Idrisi (Sicily, 1100-1166) Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.
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15th Century
- Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436 – 1507)
- Erhard Etzlaub (1460 – 1532)
- Fra Mauro (Venice, c.1459)
- Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488 – 1552)
- Piri Reis/Hadji Muhammad (Dardanelles, 1465 – 1554/1555)
- Hartmann Schedel (Germany, 1440 – 1514)
- Amerigo Vespucci (Italy, 1454 – 1512)
- Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c.1470 – c.1521/1522)
- Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466 – 1528) refined and promoted the Werner map projection
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16th Century
- Philipp Apian (1531-1589)
- Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571 - 1638)
- Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596 - 1673)
- Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, 1508 - 1555)
- Martin Heilwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)
- Jodocus Hondius, (Flanders, England, Netherlands, 1563 - 1612)
- Henricus Hondius (Netherlands, 1597 - 1651)
- Jan Janssonius (Netherlands, 1588 - 1664)
- Gerard de Jode (Flanders, 1509 - 1591)
- Gerardus Mercator (Flanders, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)
- A. Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1593 - 1650)
- Pedro Nunes, (Portugal, 1502 - 1578)
- Abraham Ortelius, (Flanders, 1527 - 1598)
- Petrus Plancius, (Netherlands, (1552 - 1622)
- John Speed, (England, 1542 - 1629)
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17th Century
- Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi (Venice, 1698 – 1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
- Vincenzo Coronelli (1650 – 1718)
- Guillaume Delisle (1675 – 1726), cartographer
- Johann Homann (Germany, 1664 – 1724), geographer
- Johannes van Kleulen, cartographer, founder of Firm of Van Kleulen
- Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1621 – 1687)
- Peter Schenk (1660 – 1718/1719)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau (died 1743)
- Matthias Seutter (1678 – 1757)
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18th Century
- Thomas Jefferys (c. 1710 - 1771) Geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
- Johann Friedrich Endersch (Germany, fl. 1755)
- Colonel Robert Erskine (1735 - 1780) Geographer and Surveyor-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
- John Rocque (England, 1709 - 1762)
- Simeon De Witt (1756 - 1834) Successor to Robert Erskine and Surveyor-General of the State of New York
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19th Century
- George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)
- Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)
- Paul Diercke (1874 - 1937)
- Max Eckert-Greifendorff (1868 - 1938)
- Hermann Haack (1872 - 1966)
- Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986)
- Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
- Thomas Moule (England, 1784 - 1851)
- Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France)
- Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795 - 1869)
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20th Century
- Erik Arnberger (1917 - 1987)
- Jacques Bertin (1918- )
- Roger Brunet (1931- )
- Günther Hake (1922 - 2000)
- George F. Jenks (1916 - 1996)
- Edgar Lehmann (1905 - 1990)
- Rudi Ogrissek (1926 - 1999)
- Erwin Raisz (1893 - 1968)
- Arthur H. Robinson (1915 - 2004)
- John C. Sherman (1916 - 1996)
- Waldo R. Tobler (1930- )
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Cartography Organizations
- British Cartographic Society (http://www.cartography.org.uk/)
- Society of Cartographers (http://www.soc.org.uk/)
- NACIS North American Cartographic Information Society (http://www.nacis.org/)
- Ordnance Survey (United Kingdom)de:Kartografpt:Lista de cartógrafos
